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The Naked Truth. Series, No. I 



THE LEAVEN 

/ BY 

J.EDWARD SMITH, CS.B. 



AUTHOR OF 

TEe Naked Truth Series'' 
Le Courier, Lrumbs 
Etc., Etc. 



PUBLISHED 
BY 

THE AUTHOR 

214 HUNTINGTON AVENUE 
BOSTON 
MASSACHUSETTS 






Copyright, 1922, by 
J. EDWARD SMITH, C. S. B. 



PRINTED BY 



SAMUEL USHER 
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MAR -3 1922 

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Dedicated to the Master 








Heputteth in the sickle — 
because the harvest is come 



FOREWORD 

The purpose of this book is to speak a word of 
light to such as seek salvation from sickness, sorrow, 
pain, and poverty. While it contains a special mes- 
sage to Christian Scientists, it is by no means con- 
fined to a religious sense, for Christian Science is not 
a religion: it is a science; moreover, the text of my 
message is at variance with the general belief in 
Christian Science. Science is not something to be- 
lieve, it is something to understand. I advise 
Christian Scientists who wish to maintain their mere 
belief in Christian Science not to read this book. 
To the Scientist who would understand his own 
textbook and thus become a scientific Christian, I 
say: "There is a message here for you; read it 
carefully, and read it more than once." 




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HETHER or not supreme 
wisdom guided Mary Baker 
Eddy when she hid the leaven 
in " three measures of meal" (as she 
adroitly uses these words in simile of 
Jesus' parable) — i. e., whether or not 
Mrs. Eddy was truly wise when she 
veiled the naked truth she wrote in the 
first edition of " Science and Health," 
which edition she speaks of in " Ret- 
rospection and Introspection," as 
" containing the complete statement 
of Christian Science," — the unfolding 
wisdom of time must decide. 

Whether or not Mrs. Eddy discovered 
the science of physical harmony (which 
discovery, in the light of " The Quimby 
Manuscripts," many researchers are 

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now attributing to Quimby), one thing is 
certain: Mrs. Eddy did, for some reason 
best known to herself, hide the most 
vital of her written statements of meta- 
physics behind a veil of words. 

Those who believe and contend that 
the various revisions of " Science and 
Health " indicate a more spiritual ex- 
position of the subject, cannot bolster 
their opinions by saying that Mrs. 
Eddy grew in wisdom, and thus im- 
proved upon her earlier statements of 
metaphysics, for Mrs. Eddy claims that 
her first book, elucidating Christian 
Science, was dictated by Wisdom Itself. 
" It was not myself/' she declares in 
" Miscellany," page 114, line 23, " but 
the divine power of Truth and Love, 
infinitely above me, which dictated 
1 Science and Health \" 

Now infinite and unchanging Wisdom, 
manifestly, cannot change tomorrow 

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what it dictates today; and if Mrs. 
Eddy changed, or entirely reversed her 
teaching, since the original dictation by 
" the divine power of Truth and Love/' 
this change or reversal would upset and 
discredit Mrs. Eddy's claim, — " it was 
not myself, but the divine power of 
Truth and Love, infinitely above me, 
that dictated ' Science and Health \" 
But the fact of the matter is, Mrs. Eddy 
never changed her original statement of 
Christian Science. She veiled it! 

Scientists are reading out of the veiled 
Truth the antithesis of metaphysical 
facts. There is a reason for this, and 
the student is not entirely to blame. 
It would seem that Mrs. Eddy con- 
sidered the " meat of the Word " too 
advanced for the multitudes, and even 
for her own followers, so she changed it 
to the " milk of the Word " — as she 
herself has called it. The real signifi- 

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cance of the Word is not changed in her 
exposition of it, but there are vital truths 
taught in the earlier editions of " Science 
and Health " that seem to antagonize, 
and in some instances entirely reverse, 
the teaching of the later editions. 
Without close observation and careful, 
scientific reasoning, the present edition 
of " Science and Health " seems to 
carry an exactly opposite meaning — as, 
for instance, in the relation of God to 
man — to that given in the earlier 
volumes. This seeming contradiction 
is the veil, and behind the veil is the 
" leaven " or hidden Truth. 

When, in 1894, " Science and Health" 
was laid away in the corner-stone of the 
Mother Church, Mrs. Eddy declared, 
in her address for that occasion, that 
it was " laid away as a sacred secret in 
the heart of a rock." (" Miscellaneous 
Writings," 144.) 

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In spite of this public pronouncement, 
by Mrs. Eddy herself, that there is a 
" sacred secret " hidden in her promul- 
gation of Christian Science, and in the 
face of her declaration that " Truth un- 
foldeth forever," many of Mrs. Eddy's 
followers will resent the least intimation 
that Truth may unfold beyond their own 
present, narrow interpretation of it. 
They will ridicule the idea that there 
can possibly be any vital truth hidden 
in the ." three measures of meal" 
which Mrs. Eddy calls " Science, The- 
ology, and Medicine," and in which, she 
infers, the Biblical leaven was hidden. 
Mrs. Eddy was a prophet and seer. She 
made no idle prophecies, and despised 
conservatism. In " Science and Health " 
452 : 20, she wrote, " We soil our gar- 
ments with conservatism, and after- 
wards we must wash them clean." 



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In this volume, I will throw conserva- 
tism to the winds, and speak the naked 
truth. It is better even to offend 
another than to compromise your own 
conscience when you know, and have 
proved, that you are right. 

If we would gain light from Mrs. 
Eddy's writings, as well as from other 
sources of inspiration (for the world is 
full of prophets and seers), we need, 
good-naturedly, to peck open our shells 
of conservatism, and peep beyond our 
ecclesiastical noses. 




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E are, metaphysically speak- 
ing, living in " the last times/' 
We are living in the sixth 
day of creation, as creation is reck- 
oned in the Mosaic allegory. We are 
living in the most momentous hour in 
human history. We are facing the ad- 
vent of the evolutional seventh day, re- 
ferred to in the Scriptures as "the Lord's 
day/' or the day of perfection. To quote 
a great metaphysician as to this, "Ma- 
terial history is drawing to a close/ ' 
That is, to state it a little differently, 
this so-called matter universe is about 
to be disclosed a mental universe. 

Saint John said, speaking of the 
seventh period of Genesis, the seventh 
day of creation's unfoldment or mental 
evolution, " In the day of the seventh 
angel " (" seventh " meaning perfec- 

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tion, and " angel " meaning thought), 
" when he shall begin to sound, the 
mystery of God shall be finished." 
That is to say, when the day of perfect 
understanding begins to dawn, the 
mystery surrounding divine individual- 
ity will be solved. 

Whether the mystery that hides the 
Truth in metaphysics was decreed by the 
wisdom that hid Moses in the bulrushes, 
and that carried Jesus into Egypt, or 
whether by a mistaken, unnecessary 
concession to this age, — whether, in 
fine, it was done by wisdom, or by error, 
— it was done! It is also now undone, for 
the veil that hid metaphysics is removed. 

Metaphysics has emerged from blind 
belief and superstition! 

Moses is rescued from the bulrushes! 

Jesus is recalled from Egypt! 

The "precious volume" has 
brought forth a son! 

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" For unto us a child is born, unto us 
a son is given: and the government shall 
be upon his shoulder: and his name shall 
be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
mighty God, The everlasting Father, 
The Prince of Peace.' ' 

Before reading the book that unveils 
" Science and Health," the above 
prophecy was to me a mystery. To-day 
it is a mentally tangible truth; something 
to be thought, felt, realized, utilized! 

The veil over all Scripture seems, in 
the light of history, to have been 
necessary to the orderly unfoldment of 
human consciousness to a diviner alti- 
tude. All prophecy seems to favor this 
conclusion. The veil that Mrs. Eddy 
spread over the metaphysical truths she 
wrote may have been necessary to lift 
her millions of followers — and thereby 
to lift human consciousness — to a plane 
receptive of the naked truth that Moses 

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hid, and that all subsequent prophets 
hid, beneath scriptural nomenclature. 

The book that sweeps the veil from 
divine metaphysics — the science of 
Soul — necessarily bares the hidden 
truths of the Scriptures, for the spiritual 
meaning of the Scriptures is meta- 
physical. Ecclesiastical interpretation 
of Holy Writ makes impossible an under- 
standing either of this world or of the 
next. Metaphysics, the science of Life, 
explains this world, and settles the 
question of the next. 

Every student of divine metaphysics 
will agree that Jesus' mission was not to 
prepare people to die and go to another 
world, but to live and transform this 
world. He did not preach two worlds: 
for the world is not a place, but a state 
of consciousness. Two worlds, if by 
that we mean two universes, is as im- 
possible as two Gods. 

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Jesus preached God and heaven here, 
and the kingdom of God within you. 
" As God hath said, I will dwell in 
them, and walk in them; and I will be 
their God, and they shall be my people/ ' 
Jesus did not teach a salvation for the 
soul, for soul is God, and cannot be lost. 
Jesus taught the evangelization of the 
human or infantile mind, and through 
this, the salvation of the so-called human 
body; or, as Paul puts it, " the redemp- 
tion of the body." 

Now the meaning of " redemption " 
is purification or refinement, or trans- 
formation, even as Paul indicates in his 
demand — " Be ye transformed [let your 
form, body, be changed] by the renewing 
[cleansing] of your mind." 

The whole scheme of salvation, then, 
consists in refining or transforming, 
" redeeming " the body, through a 
scientific, common-sense knowledge of 

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Cause and effect, Soul and body, God 
and man, here and now. The attain- 
ment of heaven is not won through 
mystical belief in a personal deity or 
" divine Love " who has prepared for us 
a far-off heaven, or a distant plane of 
consciousness. It is attained through 
a demonstrable understanding of nat- 
ural, divine law in this world, this 
universe, the only universe there is — 
when considered infinite and apart from 
sin, sickness, and death. Mrs. Eddy 
asks, " Have you ever pictured this 
heaven and earth " — meaning, of 
course, the present world — " inhabited 
by beings under the control of supreme 
wisdom? " 

Think of it! What worlds upon worlds 
of wonders in the universe we now live 
in, if only we were not limited in every 
direction by supposed finiteness, and 
everywhere plagued by the results of 

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these limitations which impose suffering, 
sorrow, separation, and death. And 

WHAT IF THE MISSION OF JESUS WAS TO 
TEACH HUMANITY HOW TO DESTKOY 
THESE LIMITATIONS AND BEING HEAVEN 
ON EARTH, EVEN AS HE SAID! 

Jesus did not say that salvation or 
eternal life was contingent upon death 
and transition to another sphere. He 
said, " This is life eternal, that they 
might know thee, the only trite God, and 
Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." 
That is to say, the way to eternal life 
is not to go, but to KNOW! — to know 
what God is, and how Jesus personified 
God, or made God " manifest in the 
flesh." 

Saint John, when explaining how Life, 
God, is made manifest, made visible, 
said: " In the beginning was the Word 
[the activity or thought of God], and the 
Word was with God [and thought was 

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Mind], and the Word was God." All 
was mind, God — thinkee, thought, 
and expression! God was the only 
one to know, and the only one to be 
known; the only one to see, and the 
only one to be seen: therefore, " The 
Word was with God, and the Word 
was God." 

To state it a little differently, Mind, 
the invisible Principle of the universe, 
is God, and the ocular or sensible ex- 
pression of this invisible Mind or 
Principle is inseparable from (is with) 
God, and is God manifest, or Mind in a 
cognizable state, as action, feeling, and 
form. 

Paul, referring to the visible ex- 
pression of Mind, God, said, " The Word 
was made flesh [was made visible] and 
dwelt among us, that the life also of 
Jesus might be made manifest in our 
mortal flesh." 

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Now the life of Jesus was his mind, 
and Mind is God; therefore the life of 
Jesus was God. It was the purpose of 
God — according to Paul — that God, 
Life (" the life that was in Jesus ")> 
might also be manifest (made visible) 
" in our mortal flesh " (in our present 
state of being), thus transmuting our 
very bodies — " our mortal flesh" from 
glory to glory, until we shall reach the 
" fullness of the stature of manhood in 
Christ Jesus/ ' and awake in the con- 
sciousness of perfection, even as did 
Jesus. 

To make the matter still plainer, if 
possible, Paul taught that the erring 
human sense of God and man was to be 
destroyed by the doctrine of perfection 
taught and demonstrated by Jesus, and 
that we may, here and now, " have that 
mind which was in Christ Jesus " ; that 
we may learn through the demonstra- 

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tions of the Nazarene, i.e., through his 
demonstrated dominion over all visible 
phenomena,, that his mind was God; and 
therefore, that our life or mind also, 
when rightly understood, is God. 
" When once thou hast gained the crown 
of righteousness (right mindedness), 
thou hast become God." (" The Ante- 
Xicene Fathers.") 

All right mind is God, and all right 
embodiment is God, mind, embodied, 
here, now, and throughout all eternity. 
Your salvation is to know this, to demon- 
strate this, even to the redemption of 
your own body from mutability and 
death. " Know ye not that ye are 
temples of the living God? M Do you 
not know that you, your mind, your life, 
is an inseparable particle of Life itself, 
and that you, your body — your body 
rightly understood — is Life made visible? 

Rightly understood, Mind, God, is the 
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invisible substance of the visible uni- 
verse, here and now. This is true, 
notwithstanding the seeming mutability 
of our present sense of ob j ectivity . This 
world is not a counterfeit world, of 
which the original is somewhere, in 
some state or place. The visible uni- 
verse is an infantile expression, or 
unfolding sense, of the one and only 
Mind or Intelligence, called God. A 
scientific understanding of the visible 
universe reveals the wonder and glory 
of invisible Life, and destroys all mis- 
conceptions which have externalized 
themselves in all visible objects, making 
them seem what they are not, — physical 
concepts. 

Speaking of the universe, — the one 
universe, the only universe there is, the 
spiritual universe, the very universe 
which we, here and now, crudely per- 
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physical, that is to say, through a false 
concept of the universe. — Mrs. Eddy 
said: "To material sense, this divine 
universe is dim and distant, gray in the 
sombre hues of twilight; but anon the 
veil is lifted,, and the scene shifts into 
light." 

The veil is lifting! And the light of 
revealed metaphysics '' will destroy in 
this mountain [in this exalted, scientific 
sense of God and man] the face of the 
covering that is cast over all people, and 
the veil that is spread over all nations." 
When the veil is fully lifted, it will be 
universally known that the spiritual 
universe, the present universe, the only 
universe there is, is a sensible expression 
of the invisible intelligence, which in- 
telligence we are: and that our bodies 
are the highest visible expression of that 
intelligence. 



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Soul is God, body is man; and a 
present scientific or perfectly intelligent 
understanding of Soul and body, God 
and man, is " God made manifest in the 
flesh " — in other words, Intelligence 
made consciously visible to Itself. 

Blasphemy! No, it is the naked truth. 
It is the truth that Jesus taught, that 
Paul taught, that Mrs. Eddy taught, 
and that is written in the " PRECIOUS 
VOLUME." It is the truth taught in 
the present edition of " Science and 
Health" (wherever Mrs. Eddy herself 
revised it), and the truth that may be 
seen in all Mrs. Eddy's works (that she 
herself wrote), — and the truth that 
will surely be seen by all, whenever they 
look beneath the veil. 

In the present edition of " Science and 
Health, " page 125, line 12, Mrs. Eddy 
wrote: "As human thought changes 
from one stage to another of conscious 

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pain and painlessness, sorrow and joy, — 
from fear to hope and from faith to 
understanding, — the visible manifesta- 
tion will at last be man governed by 
Soul, not by material sense.' ' 

Here Mrs. Eddy states in unmistaka- 
ble language that the visible image, the 
body, is man; and that this man, this 
body, is or will be, when perfect un- 
derstanding is reached, governed by 
" Soul " or Mind, which Soul or Mind is 
the invisible ego of the visible body. 

If you have any doubt as to Mrs. 
Eddy's teaching on this subject, turn 
to " Miscellaneous Writings," page 77, 
and read what Mrs. Eddy says upon 
the question of salvation. When read- 
ing bear in mind that Mrs. Eddy uses 
the word " man M both to designate con- 
scious individuality and to denote the 
reflection or body which is the idea, 
image or likeness of conscious being. In 

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one case the word refers to the ego, 
which is identical with God, and is 
God; in the other case, to the visible 
identity or likeness of the mental ego or 
individualized mentality. 

Read Mrs. Eddy on this subject. 
Read carefully, read prayerfully. You 
will catch a glimpse of glory, if you read 
understandingly. If you get no new 
light, it is because the veil is still 
blinding your eyes. If you are able to 
read it without the veil, you will see the 
spiritual meaning of the concluding 
sentence of that wonderful and illumi- 
nating answer to the question of salva- 
tion. The whole marvelous story is 
told there, and the climax refers to no 
far-off mysterious Messiah, but to the 
Christ, or individuality of your own 
being, here and now. It refers to 
" Christ in you, the hope of glory.' } 

So here you have the naked truth 
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ut God and man! When this truth 
is understood and demonstrated, eternal 
life will reign, and there will be no other 
sense or consciousness of life: for. in 
the words : Mrs. Eddy. - This [the 
understanding of troth] is the spiritual 
dawn [within you] of the Messiah, . . . 
this is when God is made manifest in 
the flesh, and thus it destroys all 
sense [within you] of sin, sickness, and 
death — when the brightness of His 
glory encompasseth all being," 

X . must include you and 

me. It must embrace all humanity: for 
God is the father of M all being, God, 
then, is the father of humanity; not of 
-Hen humanity, but of perfect being. 
Right here is the point of divergence 
between the true way the way that 
Mrs. Eddy pointed out. the way that 
Jesus demonstrated; and the way 
that some Scientists teach. Some 

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teach that there are two worlds: a 
spiritual world, one to which we "pass 
on," and another, the world we now 
live in, believed to be a material world 
filled with material human beings. Such 
teaching is wholly at variance with the 
truth that Jesus taught, that Paul 
taught, that Mrs. Eddy taught. 

There is much said about knowing 
God, and about wanting to know what 
the next world is. It is not possible to 
know God, until you know yourself; 
and the next world will be a mystery 
until you know scientifically what this 
world is. When you scientifically know 
yourself and true humanity, you will 
know God, and not till then. I do not 
refer to the mutable and mortal human 
concept which humanity holds of itself, 
but to the divine sense that Jesus 
entertained of it, and that he proved it, 
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the nature that Paul claimed for it when 
he wrote, " God hath said, I will dwell 
in them, and walk in them; and I will 
be their God, and they shall be my 
people." 

When humanity is rightly known by 
itself, when its present sense of God and 
man has yielded to scientific under- 
standing of God and man, human con- 
sciousness shall have become divine, and 
the mortal and imperfect will give place 
to the immortal and perfect. Then, 
God, good, will be found to be all " on 
earth as it is in heaven." 

Mrs. Eddy had the true sense of 
humanity, and she said: "The more I 
understand true humanhood, the more 
I see it to be sinless, — as ignorant of 
sin as is the perfect maker. To me 
the reality and substance of being are 
good, and nothing else. ... So long as 
I hold evil in consciousness, I cannot 

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be wholly good." (" Unity of Good," 
page 49.) 

In exact proportion that your con- 
sciousness is good — scientifically good, 
consciously good — you will be able to 
externalize this sense of good in your 
present surroundings, and in your 
health, happiness, and success. Thus, 
you combine a knowledge of God, good, 
with harmony, heaven, here and now, and 
practically solve the question of the ages, 
— " What is God and where is heaven?" 

Mrs. Eddy, in " Science and Health/' 
page 573, when speaking of Saint John's 
sense of the universe, here and now, 
said: " This testimony of Holy Writ 
sustains the fact in Science, that the 
heavens and earth to one human con- 
sciousness, that consciousness which 
God bestows, are spiritual, while to 
another, the unillumined human mind, 
the vision is material." 

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There you have it all in a nutshell! 
There is your " human " and your 
"divine"; your "this world" and your 
" next world"; your " heaven " and 
your " hell" Take Shakespeare's ad- 
vice and have it " as you like it." 



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OME people like to have their 
thinking done for them, and 
thus they become mere be- 
lievers in what is told them. The 
non-thinker is always ready to believe 
the most convenient thing, or any- 
thing that promises immunity from 
thinking. To think is to be; not to 
think is suicide. Thinking is the road 
to salvation, and the only road. 
Heaven is a mental state, and you must 
think yourself into it; you can get 
there no other way. " As a man 
thinketh in his heart, so is he." And 
as a man thinketh in his heart there is 
he, or, to state it another way and 
mean the same thing, — THERE HE 
IS! "The kingdom of heaven is within 
you " — within your mind. 

My appeal is to thinkers, in the 
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church and out of it. Thinking is the 
activity of Mind, Intelligence, Life. 
The man who thinks for himself is alive. 
The man who believes what another 
tells him, and believes it before he him- 
self has proved it to be true, is a " dead 
one." Don't believe this statement till 
you have proved it: for you are a 
" dead one " if you do. Mere belief, 
even in the truth, is harmful, for until 
belief in a thing is changed to under- 
standing of it — to a demonstrable 
understanding of it — you are still in 
ignorance regarding it* 

I repeat : thinking or reasoning is the 
Saviour of the human race — the only 
thing that will save it from itself; from 
its own false and disastrous conclusions 
about life and its manifestation. If, as 
you no doubt will admit, sin and death 
came into the world through wrong 
thinking, these evils must be put out of 

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the world by right thinking — right rea- 
son. Isaiah represents deity as saying, 
" Come now, let us reason together." 

Mrs. Eddy, speaking of the infantile 
mind, — that is, the infantile reasoning 
of the adult human consciousness, — 
said: " Feeding at first on the milk of 
the Word [the veiled truth], it drinks in 
the sweet revealings of a new and more 
spiritual Life and Love." (" Miscel- 
laneous Writings," page 15.) 

Note that the words " Life " and 
" Love " are capitalized, although Mrs. 
Eddy is speaking of the human mind. 
Why did she do that? Did you ever 
stop to reason it out? 

" Come, saith the Lord, let us reason 
together." Now Life is God, Love is 
God, and God is Spirit. Could Spirit 
be " more spiritual "? Why did Mrs. 
Eddy capitalize " Life" and " Love," 
when speaking of the human mind? 

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Because, strictly speaking, there is no 
human mind, — if by that term you 
mean some mind apart from God. Mrs. 
Eddy was speaking of quantity, not 
quality. In an article called " Life " 
she says: " Truth evolves life as a result 
of itself." 

All mind is divine, and cannot be more 
divine. Mind, God, cannot increase in 
quality, but we can, through experience, 
have more in quantity — more under- 
standing, more Life, more Love, just as 
the human father has more intelligence, 
in quantity, than the son who has all 
the quality of the father. 

The average reader, if he has a habit 
of reading without reasoning, will miss 
the naked truth in Mrs. Eddy's state- 
ment of fact, namely, that the so-called 
human mind, the infantile mind, the 
immature mind, is nevertheless MIND. 
There is but one Mind, or consciousness, 

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and this Mind is forever unfolding to 
individual being or conscious Conscious- 
ness — an ever-increasing awareness of 
Himself, Herself, Itself, Life, Truth, 
Love, God, — the all in all and only. 

In " Unity of Good," 24 : 12, Mrs. 
Eddy wrote: " All consciousness is 
Mind, and Mind is God." In " Ret- 
rospection and Introspection," 56 : 18, 
by the same author, we read: " All 
consciousness is Mind, and Mind is 
God." In " No and Yes," this author 
says: " When a so-called material sense 
is lost, and Truth restores that lost 
sense, — on the basis that consciousness 
is Mind [God] and eternal, — the former 
position, that sense is organic and 
material, is proven erroneous." 

Here Mrs. Eddy's own words rend 
the veil, and clearly state that your very 
so-called " corporeal senses " are in 
reality spirit: for what you call organic 

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and material is mental, because " all 
consciousness is Mind, and Mind is 
God." According to Mrs. Eddy, your 
individual consciousness, when right, is 
Mind, and Mind is God. 

What you are truly conscious of, or 
scientifically know, you know with 
Mind, and Mind is God. 

What you merely believe you know, 
what you know of things that are mere 
belief creations such as all evil and mor- 
tality (for evil beliefs outline them- 
selves as things), you know, or believe 
you know, on the basis of mere conjec- 
ture about the truth of creation; and 
this belief, this false consciousness, is 
not conscious of the truth, therefore 
not true consciousness. It is what 
Mrs. Eddy calls " mortal mind/' or 
mere belief about mind : — a false con- 
sciousness, an unconsciousness, a no- 
consciousness — nothing! 

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If you know the truth about life, and 
you can prove your knowing by demon- 
stration, so that you know you know, 
you are truly conscious. This true con- 
sciousness is Mind, and Mind is God. 
Reason it out! and don't be frightened 
at the naked truth of your own 
reasoning. 

What you merely believe, then, is 
your so-called " mortal mind." What 
you really know, by demonstration, is 
your immortal mind, your true selfhood, 
or self-conscious being — true conscious- 
ness. " All consciousness is Mind, and 
Mind is God." Think it over! 

Do not follow the false teaching that 
your mind is a reflection. It can be 
proved to you in ten minutes that Mrs. 
Eddy never taught any such fallacy. 
All embodiment, from a blade of grass 
to a mountain or a world, is reflection, 
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made them. Reflection, body, is effect, 
not cause, and possesses neither life, 
truth, substance nor intelligence; while 
your mind is Life, Truth, Substance, 
and Intelligence individualized. Your 
mind is cause. It is identical with 
the one and only Cause. 

" Immortal Mind is the only cause.' y 
(" Science and Health," 415 : 1.) 

" All consciousness is mind, and 
mind is God." Then what are you? 
Are you conscious? 

Use your own intelligent reason. 

The only selfhood apart from God is 
a false sense of existence, a false belief, 
about the ego or real self. That is to 
say, the only seeming life, truth, sub- 
stance, or intelligence, that is not identi- 
cal with God, is the false belief that life 
is in its formations. All life is God, and 
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Now, as it is with Mind or Life, so is 
it with Love, for they are one, and they 
are divine, whether spelled with a 
capital letter or a small one. There is 
no life but God, there is no love but 
God. " There is no power apart from 
God." (" Science and Health," 228: 25.) 

The activity of Life is the power that 
makes the so-called " material " world 
go round. 

The activity of Love is the power that 
" paints the petal with myriad hues, 
glances in the warm sunbeam, arches 
the cloud with the bow of beauty, 
blazons the night with starry gems, and 
covers earth with loveliness." ("Science 
and Health," 247.) Here Mrs. Eddy 
refers to no far-off world, but to this 
one; the one you know and live in. 

The activity of Life is the art that 
builds a feathery nest upon a tiny twig, 
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grass, and that constructs an iron road 
around the world. 

The activity of Love is the beauty 
that tints the robin's breast, and that 
blazes in the multicolored autumn glory 
of a year. 

The activity of Life is manifest in all 
things living — whether in the highest 
visible form called man, or in the tendrils 
of a sprouting potato that seeks the light 
through a crevice in the wall of a 
dungeon. 

The activity of Love is seen in all 
things loving. The most human, or so- 
called material, act of love, be it on the 
lowest plane of human existence, or in 
the wag of a friendly dog's tail, is an 
expression of the one and only Love. 

Back of all individualized phenomena 
is conscious Consciousness, the activity 
of Life and Love; for " all true con- 
sciousness is Mind, and Mind is God." 

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HERE is but one infinite Mind, 
and wherever a thinking in- 
dividual exists, there, and right 
there, mind is made manifest, made visi- 
ble, or individualized as individual being. 

Everywhere this fundamental truth 
is taught by prophet and seer, who said, 
" Thus/' and " thus saith the Lord." 
These voices were the highest audible 
expressions of Wisdom, God, and these 
forms were the highest visible ideas of 
the Principle that formed them. Until 
we understand what the prophets were, 
we cannot understand what the prophets 
said. 

In " Science and Health," 560 : 18, 
Mary Baker Eddy wrote, " Without a 
correct sense of its highest visible idea, 
we can never understand the divine 
Principle." 

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The highest visible idea (phenome- 
non) of Principle, God, is the form we 
call man, and the invisible life or mind 
of this form is of the same life-substance 
of all form, from a blade of grass to a 
star. The highest conscious individu- 
ality of Principle, God, on this plane 
of existence, is the universal " US " 
which makes " man " (form) " in our 
image and likeness." 

Mrs. Eddy was right when she placed 
in the earlier editions of " Science 
and Health " the following anonymous 
affirmance: 

"I, I, I, I itself, I. 
The inside and outside, the what and the why, 
The when and the where, the low and the high, 

All I, I, I, I itself, I." 

Christian Scientists have read their 
own meaning into Mrs. Eddy's writings, 
and her peculiar use of capital letters has 

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aided them in their misconceptions. 
" The liberty that I have taken with 
capitalization, in order to express the 
'-new tongue '," says Mrs. Eddy in 
" Miscellany," 317, "has well-nigh 
constituted a new style of language." 

Mrs. Eddy used capitalization to veil 
the naked truth. The use of the veil 
was, presumably, to hide the Truth 
from wicked minds who, with the 
wonderful power that goes with a freed 
mentality, might use this newly dis- 
covered power evilly. But in the pres- 
ent day of spiritual unfoldment, such 
a reason is no longer valid, however 
necessary it might have been in the 
beginning. 

The use of capitalization and syno- 
nymical description, particularly as to 
the definition of God and man, so con- 
fuses the average seeker that he cannot 
see the naked truth, though it blazes 

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out in all its divine wonder: but it is 
perceptible only to the mind that has 
gotten far enough out of superstition 
and churchism to dare look for it! 

Aside from the fact that all Scripture 
is veiled, the tendency of the infantile, 
or so-called mortal, mentality is to form 
a wrong concept out of the very words, 
be they ever so plain, that inspired minds 
have used to differentiate between that 
which is and that which is not, of things 
in the visible world; that is, between 
the objects of Truth and the objects of 
error: for, let it be understood, every- 
thing in the visible universe, which we 
call material, is thought objectified, or 
outlined mind-pictures or ideals, of the 
universal, or of the individual mentality, 
beholding them. And, — as Mrs. Eddy 
points out in " Christian Healing/' 
page 6, line 16, — "It matters not 
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cancer." This is the basic truth of Mrs. 
Eddy's teaching, and the premise of 
everything she ever wrote on Christian 
Science. 

Many students of Christian Science 
stubbornly overlook this fundamental 
truth, and twist the golden thread of 
absolute science to suit their own pre- 
conceived ideas of God and man: as 
for instance, some teach that we have a 
mortal body to be gotten rid of. It is 
not your present body, but your present 
false sense of your body, that must be 
gotten rid of. 

In " Miscellaneous Writings," 181, 
Mrs. Eddy wrote, " Mortals will lose 
their sense of mortality." That is, they 
will find by their own right reason that 
they are here and now immortal. In 
" Science and Health," 262 : 8, Mrs. 
Eddy wrote: " By putting l off the old 
man with his deeds ' mortals l put on 

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immortality \" In other words, by 
putting off the wrong or " old n sense 
of themselves, mortals will find them- 
selves not mortal, but immortal. Jesus 
proved the body to be immortal. • 

A false sense is all that is mortal. 

In " Unity of Good, " 37 : 7, we read: 
" Then God and heaven, or Life, are 
present. . . . They are now and here; 
and a change in human consciousness, 
from sin to holiness, would reveal this 
wonder of being. M 

Now if this statement of Mrs. Eddy's 
means anything, it means that your 
present being, both mind and body — 
even the body that you insist upon call- 
ing mortal and material — are divine 
and good, being God or Life in its sub- 
jective and objective states. 

" But/' I hear you say, " do you 
mean to tell me that my material body 
and mortal mind are divine and God- 

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made? " I mean to tell you that all 
right mind is immortal and divine, and 
that the body you call material and 
mortal is precisely what you admit it to 
be, and what you force it to be by your 
own false fleshly perception of your 
body. Mrs. Eddy says (" Unity of 
Good," 46) : " If you would subordinate 
the fleshly perceptions to the spiritual 
sense and source of being," you would 
find that " the scientific man and his 
Maker are here"; and that you are 
" none other than this man." 

What can you make out of this say- 
ing but that the " Maker," " here, " 
is consciousness or Mind, and that 
" man ," " here," is the body that you 
call " me "? When you abandon your 
" fleshly perception " of yourself, 
namely, that your body is the real you, 
and know that the reality of you is 
Mind, God, — when you abandon your 

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double sense, your false sense of two 
worlds, and accept the statement that 
" God and Heaven, or Life, is now and 
here, " you will know why Jesus said, 
" When ye have seen me, ye have seen 
the Father. " You will know what Mrs. 
Eddy meant when she said in the second 
edition of " Science and Health," " The 
I of me is God," and you will know why 
she said, when writing of the " transi- 
tion " or attainment of heaven, " it 
must include also man's changed appear- 
ance and diviner form visible to those 
beholding him here." (" Miscellaneous 
Writings," 68.) 

You never will demonstrate the truth 
of being, nor be able to heal the sick 
scientifically, until you entertain the 
same sense of your present mind and 
body that Jesus entertained of his mind 
and body. He knew that " all true 
consciousness is Mind, and Mind is 

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God," and he proved his understanding 
by the " redemption " or transition of 
his body, and accomplished the resurrec- 
tion or realization of eternal life here. 

Jesus said, " The Father is greater 
than I, " but he also said, " The Father 
and I are one." A cup of water from 
the ocean is not the whole ocean, but 
it is nevertheless ocean. Jesus was not 
the whole of God, but he was, neverthe- 
less, God individualized, God identified, 
or God made visible : in Bible language, 
he was " God made manifest in the flesh." 

This interpretation of God and man 
is a startling departure from the gener- 
ally accepted, and superstitious, belief 
about Creator and creation, cause and 
effect, Mind and manifestation, but it is 
nevertheless the truth that must be 
known by all, before sin, sickness, and 
death can be abolished from the earth. 



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When the Truth is known in all its 
naked, divine realism, the truth that 
Jesus taught and demonstrated by the 
resurrection of his so-called material 
body, and the de-materialization of the 
same, it will be seen that the redemption 
of mankind from death (or carnal mind, 
as Paul puts it) is not contingent upon 
any religious sense whatever, but upon a 
scientific understanding of God and man, 
and of the world we now live in. 

There is no God but consciousness, 
and no man but that which conscious- 
ness forms. 

There is no world other than conscious 
Consciousness makes. Time, space, 
visible substance, form, color, — every 
expression and manifestation, now, here, 
everywhere, always, is Mind or con- 
sciousness unfolding in the everlasting 
and glorious awareness of itself, from 
glory to glory, stretching into infinity. 

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'The silent omnipotence oj"MincL i$ the |br- 
G^er* actiVe God Seen in all the inani- 
-Testations of life " C = "^^^^ == ^ > 
"It id through the Silent command 
oj" Mind that the morning 
light burets like av?a^e 
of glory oVer the 
orderly uni~ 
Verse""-— 



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I speak not of the unseen glory, but 
of the eternally visible activity of the 
unseen substance or God, from which 
all being unfoldeth forever in action, 
feeling, and form. 

The silent omnipotence of Mind is the 
forever active God seen in all the mani- 
festations of life. "It is through the 
silent command of Mind that the 
morning light bursts like a wave of 
glory over the orderly universe."* 



* Mrs. Eddy in "Life." 

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|N the foregoing sections, I have 
given a hint of the "meat of 
the Word," as I have gleaned 
it from the book that has unveiled 
" Science and Health." 

I declare, as my calm and con- 
scientious conviction, based upon reason 
and actual demonstration — as well as 
a reasonable knowledge of the universal 
teachings of Christian Scientists 
throughout the world — that, until the 
advent, in the realm of metaphysics, of 
the book above referred to, not a Chris- 
tian Scientist on the face of the earth, 
excepting Mrs. Eddy herself, knew the 
true and full import of the Truth taught 
in " Science and Health." 

The author of that book is the first 
student of Christian Science to fully 
understand " Science and Health," and 

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he has put his understanding in such a 
form that it cannot be misunderstood, 
nor intelligently denied. It is truly so 
clear, that " he who runs may read." 

After reading that book, and observ- 
ing the wonderful results that follow the 
actual application of the understanding 
of Science, as compared to results follow- 
ing my former belief in Science, I have 
not a shadow of a doubt that the author 
has done for Christian Science what 
Paul, in the first century, did for Chris- 
tianity. He has done more. He has 
done for it what Saint John did for the 
revelation of Jesus Christ; and he has 
done it without metaphor : he has given 
the world the naked Truth. His work is 
the culmination, in consciousness, of the 
labor of all centuries, and ushers in the 
actual kingdom of heaven in the minds of 
men. 

In making this statement, I am not 

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detracting from the work of Mary 
Baker Eddy. I am making the simple 
statement that " Science and Health " 
is not understood by its readers, and will 
not be, until its contents are unveiled to 
them. I am telling my readers that 
Mrs. Eddy is succeeded, not by another, 
but by the very Truth she taught; that 
this Truth is revealed, unveiled, and 
made plainly and simply compre- 
hensible by another. 

Thirty years of unremitting toil for 
spiritual light in Science, and as many 
years' study of " Science and Health/' 
as well as my present new and mathe- 
matical understanding of it, qualifies me 
to make that assertion. Gratitude for 
this understanding, the certainty of 
where it is to be found, and a desire that 
others may find it, compels me to make it. 

I would not depreciate the value of 
the veiled Truth. All the wealth in the 

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world could not buy of me what I have 
gotten from " Science and Health"; 
but, had I read it another thirty years 
before reading the book that unveils it, 
I should not have gained the knowledge 
I now have of its contents, for the most 
vital truth taught in the book was so 
adroitly hidden, that only one in all the 
millions who have read the book has 
discovered and uncovered the hidden 
Truth. 

To the rest of us, PauPs words apply: 
" For when ye ought to be teachers ye 
have need that one teach you . . . and 
are become such as have need of milk, 
and not of strong meat." The " milk 
of the Word," which Paul referred to, 
was the simple Truth which Jesus 
uttered, in words they could understand, 
and with more or less concession to 
their materiality or immature reasoning; 
but which Word, nevertheless, contained 

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the Truth which Paul called the " meat 
of the Word/' and which — Paul was 
urging — should have been discerned 
and taught by the other disciples; but 
they were asleep, still feeding upon the 
" milk of the Word/' or the mere belief 
in the truth of being. 

The Paul of this age is again crying to 
the disciples of Truth, " Awake, thou 
that sleepest, and arise from the dead, 
and Christ shall give thee light.' ' 

Who this individual is, does not 
matter. I will speak of him later. The 
human mind is inclined to higgle over 
personality, either deifying it or damn- 
ing it. I desire to hold the reader's 
attention to the only question that 
matters, viz : the truth that Mrs. Eddy 
veiled and that a certain book has un- 
veiled. Those ready for the truth will 
seek it and find it. Those who desire 
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author may " ask of me and I will 
answer." 

One of the reasons that Scientists 
have not understood Mrs. Eddy's writ- 
ings is the fact that they have not 
rightly understood Mrs. Eddy. The 
moment you believe any person to have 
been specially selected by Deity to de- 
liver a message to mankind, that mo- 
ment you shut the door of your thought 
to the true character of the message that 
the individual revelator, or inspired 
thought, has for you. And that is the 
reason I am not preaching or exalting 
a person. We have had enough of that. 
I am calling to your attention the final 
revelation to mankind, of the Truth 
taught and demonstrated by Jesus of 
Nazareth. I am declaring to you that this 
Truth is written plainly for all to read, 
and I am telling you — or will tell you if 
you want to know — where to find it. 

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Mrs. Eddy was inspired, and she had 
a revelation of truth to give the world. 
The same is true of the man who has 
unveiled the truth that Airs. Eddy con- 
cealed. But this is a long way from 
saying that either of these individuals 
was sent by a personal God — or by 
" divine Love," which is only another 
name for a personal God — and such a 
belief is an error of great magnitude. 

It might be well to say a word here 
respecting revelation and revelators. 

It has been thought, and taught, that 
a revelator is one who is chosen by some 
centralized power called God. A cen- 
tralized power would mean a personal 
God, whether you call it that or not. 
There is no such God or power. God's 
center, the center of good, is everywhere; 
and the wisdom of God is personified, 
embodied, made incarnate, shadowed 
forth, wherever there is an individual 
being thinking Truth, God. 

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" To keep human consciousness in 
constant relation with the divine, the 
spiritual and the eternal, is to individu- 
alize infinite power; and this is Christian 
Science." (Mrs. Eddy in " Miscel- 
lany," 160 : 5.) 

Here is a definite statement that 
human consciousness, when in right rela- 
tion to divine Principle, is divine con- 
sciousness. Here is a positive statement 
that individual human consciousness, 
when kept in constant relation to the 
divine, is infinite power — that is, God 
— individualized. 

With this correct sense of God, you 
may see who and what authorizes revela- 
tors and revelation. With this correct 
sense of individuality, you may clearly 
see where human beings get their 
authority to reveal Truth. You must 
see that they are not authorized by some 
central power called God, or divine Love, 

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but by the very virtue of the Truth and 
Love they themselves evolve or unfold, out 
of the infinite and all-knowing conscious- 
ness, God. 

Revelation is nothing more nor less 
than the result of some individual's 
diligent, persistent, and indefatigable 
research for absolute Truth. 

Revelation flows not into some indi- 
vidual mind, from an outside source 
called God. 

Revelation flows out from a selfless 
heart, which is of itself the very throne 
of God, or God individualized. 

Humanity's opposite belief about it- 
self is responsible for all the misery in 
the world, and for the so-called death of 
the body. 

To sum up the whole matter of the 
" leaven " — to which Jesus referred 
when he said, " To what shall I liken 
the kingdom of heaven " — the leaven 

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is the absolute truth of being which 
constitutes heaven or eternal harmony. 

Jesus knew that the doctrines of 
religion would eclipse his teaching in a 
night, or period, of darkness : so he said, 
" The night cometh when no man can 
work" — when none would see the 
naked truth as he had taught it. The 
night came, and was called " The Dark 
Ages." Then, out the morning arose 
u a woman with a lamp in her hand. " 
But this woman placed her light upon 
the altar of religion, and history has 
repeated itself. 

Again religious bigotry and super- 
stition threatens to eclipse the light of 
Truth, and — through the very institu- 
tion chosen by humanity to spiritually 
enlighten itself (namely, the church) — 
to plunge civilization into the clutches 
of a politico-religious hierarchy, and 
revive again for Christendom the odium 

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theologicum which forced reason to rebel 
and produced the reformation. But, 
fortunately, for this age, " the earth has 
helped the woman." Christianity has 
survived church-anity. Truth has won 
the tilt with religion, and has broken 
its pagan lance. 

Religion preceded Jesus of Naza- 
reth, and belongs to pre-Christian 
practice and pagan philosophies. Ac- 
cording to Webster, " religion is the 
outward act or form by which men indi- 
cate recognition of a god or gods." 

Religion has nothing at all to do 
with Christianity. Religion is of human 
origin, Christianity is of divine. Re- 
ligion builds church edifices and forms 
rules and by-laws. Christianity builds 
(unfolds) individual divine conscious- 
ness, and forms Christly characters. 

Mrs. Eddy says, in first edition of 
" Science and Health," page 182, 

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" Church rites and ceremonies have 
nothing to do with Christianity; and 
more than this, they draw us towards 
material things; hence away from spiri- 
tual truth." 

" Spiritual Truth " is the naked truth 
— i.e., the truth stripped of the veil that 
revelators and centuries of religious 
belief have placed upon it. 

Spiritual truth is the fact of God's 
universe here and now. 

Christ, Truth, is now saying to hu- 
manity, " Ye shall know the Truth, and 
the Truth shall make you free." 

The day of " salvation " is come. In 
this generation, individual character 
may unfold to " the fullness of the 
stature of manhood in Christ Jesus:" 
for the Truth that makes this under- 
standing possible is here; and this 
understanding makes possible the transi- 
tion that Jesus made: not a transition 

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from a place called earth to a place called 
heaven, but transition from a material 
sense of life to the spiritual facts of lif e : 
that is, from the present erroneous 
sense of the universe to the eternal real- 
ity and eternal perfection, forever un- 
folding in forms of visible beauty and 
divine goodness, mounting on pinions of 
thought, from glory to glory, into 
worlds upon worlds of self-creating, self- 
sustaining, self-conscious Life and Love 
— the Christ of God! " And this is his 
name whereby he shall be called, the 

LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." 



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&%. NATURE. 
J. Edward Smitk 

To me , eaeh. Sun-ray makes the day 
Each star, the Wondrous night. 
Each smile I meet upon my Way 

Helps make the day more bright, 
o o © 

"Each Song-bird helps to make the spring, 
Each tiny drop, the rain. 

Each, little moment helps to bring 

The Summers golden dram. 
ft ~ * ft 

The Spider Spins a silken thread 
To string some pearls of deW, 

"While morning Wakens in my heart 
Some pearl of LoVe aneW. 



" So in the church the religion of 
Jesus' Science is never heard; for it 
would drive aristocracy out of the 
pulpit and scatter seeds of freedom 
among the people. Nevertheless, the 
religion of Christ is shown in the 
progress of Christian Science, while the 
religion of society decays as the liberal 
principles are developed. Man's re- 
ligion labors to keep Science down in all 
churches North and South, by suppress- 
ing free discussion, for aristocracy will 
not have anything tending to freedom." 
(P. P. Quimby, in " The Quimby Manu- 
scripts," edited by H. W. Dresser.) 



BOSTON SCHOOL OF METAPHYSICS 

214 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass. 



TEACHER 
J. EDWARD SMITH, C.S.B. 

Assisted, bxj 

S. WILNER SMITH, C.S. 



CLASSES 
Classes will be taught in both afternoon and evening 
sessions. Applicants are required to give satisfactory 
references. 

PRIVATE INSTRUCTION 

Private instruction will be given to suit the convenience 
of the student, both as to time and number of lessons. 

TEXT-BOOK 

The text-book used in this school is "THE SICKLE." 
This book, we understand, is the only text-book in existence 
that contains pure metaphysics, without veil, setting forth a 
complete, plain, and practical exposition of the science of 
physical harmony, the science of health, or so-called " Chris- 
tian Science.' ' 

" Christian Science," — " Christ and Science," — " Sci- 
ence of Health," etc., as variously called by P. P. Quimby, 
the discoverer of this Science, is widely known to-day, — as 
far as the name "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 11 goes, — but 
the true Science of the Christ, as demonstrated by Jesus, 
discovered by P. P. Quimby, and now made practical 
and demonstrable by the greatest book of the age, " THE 
SICKLE, 11 is little known. Mary Baker Eddy, in her 
earlier writings, brought Quimby's " Christian Science " to 
the attention of the entire world. Her first book gave the 
text clearly, — as much of it as she had grasped, — then she 
veiled it. " The Sickle " not only rends the veil from meta- 
physics, but does it in a manner that makes the Truth so 
plain that all may understand. We elucidate the Science 
in its purity, as contained in " The Sickle." 



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